Programming Quotes

653 quotes by 371 authors

Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify,… — Gerald Weinberg
I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself. — Oscar Wilde
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. — Pharrell Williams
Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve… — Niklaus Wirth
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh… — Niklaus Wirth
Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are… — Edsger Dijkstra
All the shopping malls and restaurants and airports are riddled with low-fidelity loudspeakers, which apparently have developed the ability to reproduce by themselves; these are… — Dave Barry
Nine people can't make a baby in a month. — Fred Brooks
Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement. — Hal Abelson
If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets. — Shawn Fanning
Object-oriented programming aficionados think that everything is an object.... this [isn't] so. There are things that are objects. Things that have state and change their… — Alexander Stepanov
Programming in Go is like being young again (but more productive!). — Anneli Jaatteenmaki
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the… — Eric Allin Cornell
I don't like programming. It's tedious. — Rasmus Lerdorf
It took me 1057 pages to describe the hundreds of mathematical equations, algorithms and programming techniques that I invented and used. — Philip Emeagwali
I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories, — Soledad O'Brien
I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns… — Lauren Beukes
The data shows pretty clearly that how voters watch video programming is dramatically changing and reinforces the need for political campaigns to better match their… — Neil Newhouse
The ALGOL compiler was probably one of the nicest pieces of code to come out at that time. I spent hours trying to fix and… — Gary Kildall

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